Katie Couric
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01/06/1957
Arlington, VA |
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| Was a high school cheerleader, gymnast, runner, National Honor Society member and newspaper writer. |
| Launched the National Colorectal Cancer Research Alliance (NCCRA) to encourage preventive testing and new medical research after her husband died of colon cancer in 1998. |
| Named News Person of the Year by TV GUIDE in 2001. Other awards she has won include Daytime Emmys, an Associated Press Award and a National Headliner Award. |
| After watching her fill in for an absent news correspondent at the start of her career in 1980, a CNN executive said he never wanted to see her on the air again. |
